Event Videos (2020–2025)

   Book Launch and Concert Featured Performers:  Sylvie Zakarian (marimba) Daniela Tošić (vocal) Karine Bagdasarian (piano)   Location: Armenian Cultural Foundation441 Mystic Street (Route 3), Arlington, MA Date and Time:Sunday, October 19, 2025 4:00 PM ET     Organized by Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF)   Co-sponsored by Amaras Art Alliance (AAA) and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

Featured Presenter: Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Muriel Mirak-Weissbach speaks at the Armenian Cultural Foundation in Arlington for the launch of her book A German General and the Armenian Genocide.  Book Description The legacy of the German general, Otto Liman von Sanders, remains highly contested in the history of twentieth-century Europe and the Middle East. Noted for leading the 5th Ottoman army’s successful defense of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, his role in opposing the Young Turks’ genocide policy and safeguarding Greeks, Armenians, and Jews is overshadowed by his imprisonment for war crimes in 1919. In this enlightening reassessment of Liman von...

Author Mischa Geracoulis will discuss how the role of journalism and the media during times of conflict is to report information from the front lines and war zones with integrity, and report accurately when states or other combatants engage in human rights violations.

AILA's Literary Lights 2025 reading series returns with an event featuring Aram Mrjoian, editor and author of Waterline, in conversation with award-winning writer Chris McCormick.

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues Presents Demography, Politics, Resettlement: Artsakh’s Refugees in Armenia Today A Webinar with Antranig Kasbarian and Gegham Stepanyan Friday, August 22, 2025 12:00 p.m. (Eastern) / 9:00 a.m. (Pacific)  For some 30 years, significant efforts and resources were devoted to assisting the Armenians of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) to build secure and prosperous lives. The violent expulsion in 2023 of all Armenians from the region, however, resulted in a massive exodus to the Republic of Armenia and the dissolution of the Artsakh Republic. The...

Our June edition of Literary Lights 2025 reading series features Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, professor, curator and author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, in conversation with award-winning writer Nancy Kricorian. 

Watch this special webinar, organized by the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, presenting groundbreaking research on the fate of Armenian properties confiscated during and after the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

This talk explores the intersection of Armenian ethnic identity, religious belief, and mental health among ethnic Armenians, particularly in Turkey and the USA. As the world's first nation to adopt Christianity collectively, Armenians' religious and ethnic identities became inseparably intertwined, making faith a target during historical episodes of violence. 

Watch undergraduate students presenting in Undergraduate Research Week, May 23-29, 2025